[Papyrus-L] Special letters and Win XP

[Raisa Deber]

At 01:59 PM 12/6/2005, Rodgers, John R. wrote:

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>Frederick,
>  The ways of Papyrus in XP seem pretty mysterious. I have had no problem 
> with the Papyrus special character set using XP.  I suppose the good news 
> there for you might be that there IS a way to make it work.  But I don't 
> know how to make it work, it just does on my machine. When you use a 
> special character in Pap does it show up there, or is it being lost when 
> you move to a word processor.  I use both Word and WordPerfect, and it 
> comes through fine.

Fred, I suspect the issue is the default font you've installed, and how it 
handles special characters.  (I did a quick search, and found an 
impassioned discussion of "diacritics" for those wishing to use other 
languages - in this case Arabic - and the importance of insuring that they 
use the right specs - the term "unicode" gets thrown around  So, yes, 
should be very solvable.

But note that text extract will also give you problems if you're using a 
recent version of Word - make sure you can save to Word 6/95 or you'll get 
a lovely array of boxes instead of text!
(I've just started migrating to the Mac, so we'll see what problems I run 
into.  Especially since this move also involves moving from Windows 2000 on 
my current machine to XP under the Virtual PC box.  But since I plan to use 
the Windows box mainly for SAS - and potentially Word Perfect depending 
upon how well I like Office for Mac - I'm cautiously optimistic.)
Hope this helps.
Raisa



>I hope this thread can be carried on the list-serve, though.
>   -John Rodgers
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Frederik
>Sent: Tue 12/6/2005 12:28 PM
>To: papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
>Subject: [Papyrus-L] Special letters and Win XP
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>Dear fellow Papyrus users,
>
>I am in the process of switching from Win 98 to XP Professional (a jump!), 
>and I have discovered some problems writing any kind of non-English 
>letters and  symbols. For example, the letter 'e' with an accent above, 
>simply comes out as an 'e' (with no accent). I have references and other 
>text in several European languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, 
>and Danish, in my
>
>John R. Rodgers, Ph.D.
>Department of Immunology
>Baylor College of Medicine
>Houston, Texas 77030
>713-798-3903
>fax: 713-798-3700
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Raisa B. Deber, PhD
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